Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Against tho Road.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Against tho Road.
| The Board of Railroad Commissioners re-
Gently gave an important decision upon the
| complaint Of Thomas Ramsey, OF Gaylord,
! who complained OF unreasonable and ex-
cessive rates On coal shipped over the Cen
| trail Branch road. In October and Novem-
Der, 1887, Ramsey shipped from Lansing to
Beloit. over the Union Pacific railway,
distance OF 22S miles, four cars of soft coal,
rate l21a cents per hundred Same cars
transferred to the Central Branch road at
Beloit, were hauled to Gaylord, distance
| Ct forty-five miles, for which the latter con-
pany charged 101z cents per hundred.
| This latter charge was complained OF as UNI
reasonable and excessive. The road in re-
| Spouse alleged that the charge is in ac-
| cordance with the distance tariff on the
| Central Branch road, and that this tariff
was adopted for application on the line of
! the Central Branch road 10 conformity with
| the recommendation OF the board in the
| early part of 1888. AS to this claim the
| board is satisfied that it is founded wholly
| In mistake, but even if authority could be
| shown for the claim, the distance tar Il
| which was subsequently made and adopted
| by the board to lie operative upon all roads
in the State would have abroyated the tariff
claimed to have formerly EXISTED. no mat
ter by Whose authority. That tariff
fixes q rate of six cents per 100 pounds
for the distance, Beloit to Gaylord,
and this board thinks it enough They
are unable to find any warrant or
justification for the rate OF 1917 cents in this
case. The board says: THAT the rate is
deemed by the board excessive and unrea-
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from the fact that the rate las been hereto
fore fixed by us at six cents. In addition,
we have no doubt that the rate of l01l
cents charged in this and similar instances
is in violation Of the rule contained in Sec
ton 10 of the law of 1888 concerning rail-
roads, ETC., and which provides that rail-
road company shall not charge more for
transporting freight from any point on it's
line than "A fair and just proportion of tho
price it charges for the same kind of
freight transported from any other point
From Atchison to Gaylord. 227 miles, the
rate on soft coal is 1212 cents. How 1919
cents for distance OF forty-fve miles OIL
the same commodity constitutes just and
fair proportionate charge compared with
the rate for the longer distance, it would
require, as we CONCEIVE, man OF vivid
imagination TO make out. The judgment of
the board is that the excess of charge over
six cents upon the shipments embraced i'll
this complaint from Bcloit to Gaylord be
refunded the shipper, and that hereafter
the railroad company conform its charges
to the kausas distance tariff for like Ship
ments."
Miscellaneous.
AT a late meeting Of the delegates of the
various colleges i'll the State, held at To-
pe!ia, the following judges were selected
to officlatc at the contest of the State Ora
torical Association to be held at Baldwin
on the second Friday in February: Judge
+. I. Foster, Of Topeka; Rev. c. L. Thomp-
son, OF Kansas City; Hon. J. r. Burton, If
Abilene. Alternates, Prof Gladenburg, of
Midland University; Judge w. A. Johnson,
Of the Supreme Court; Hon. D. W. Wilder,
of Hiawatha; Hon. Z. B. Murdoch, of Ell
Dorado; w. L. Simons, of Parsons; Chan
cellOr Everest, of Garfield University, and
Colonel Mann. of Kansas City.
A COUPLE of sharpers are reported to DO
travelling through portions of the State
who have new swindling scheme. One
Of them claims to be gathering stock sta
tistics while the other has remonstrance
against high license. Their object is to
secure signatures to papers which after
wards turn up as promissory notes.
FRED BURKETT recently shot himself dead
at Kingman. Although but nineteen years
of age the cause of the deed was dissipa-
tion he having been on Il protracted spree.
KELLY d LIsLE, of Leavenworth, have
been awarded the contract for furnishing
the army $1,000 pounds of choice family
-four al s.. G5 per 100, and 100000 pounds Of
issue flour at s.. ID per 40.
A CONVICT is at present in the penitcn-
tiary. who has Il record as a public SER
want AS boy he served a term in tho
New York reform school. He then went
to Sing-SIng for two years for stealing.
Then he was sent to the Pennsylvania peni-
Tertiary. He afterward served terms sue
cess.vely in the Ohio penltentlary, the
Michigan States prison and the Southern
Indiana penitcntiary, from which last
named place he drifted into the Joliet
prison. Of Illinois, serving his time, and
then came to Kansas, where his industry
was soon rewarded by Il sentence to the
Kansas penitentary, where he is now dig
ging coal for the State.
A SUGAR company has been organized at
Ell Dorado with capital stock of Si50, OG0.
The percentage OF mortgage foreclosures
in Kansas the past year has been much
less than in any other State in the West.
THE first colored commercial traveller
that ever appeared in Kansas is now tray
cling over the State.
FARMERS in vriaOus parts of the State
consider the apple crop to be more profit !
able than either wheat or corn.
IT is estimated that fully two-thirds Of
the immigration to Kansas this year Went
to the southwestern part Of the State.
IT is said by the knowing ones that the
valuable deposits of po;ters clay in various
parts of the State will be mine of wealth
to owners.
THE new canning factory at Garnett put
UP this season 800 cases OF peas, 1900 cases
of corn. 3,5oO cases of apples and 1900
cases Of tomatoes. These would make
twenty-five carloads, worth at ruling prices
S22, 0OO. t
JOHN GREEN, an old soldier and member
of the home, was killed near LeavcnwOrth
the other night by a train on the Rapid
Transit road.
IT is stated that a sweeping reduction in |
freight rates has been made between Nor ,
tonvIlle and Kansas City. There is re-
duction Of nine dollars per car on hogs, !
eight dollars on cattle, and similar cuts on !
gram and other merchandise.
THE other day Joseph and Alfred Will |
hanson, of Edwardsville, went rabbit hunt |
ing, each carrying shotgun. Tie two
were separated, and when a rabbit jumped /
up before Joseph the elder brother pulled ,
the trigger and filed Alfred's hip with t
shot. The wounded young man was re-
moved to his home, where physician
picked thirty shot from his hip. One Of !
his hands was fnghtfully shattered, and |.
would probably be necessary.
CRAWFORD County has 100 carp ponds.
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